JENNY BRILLHART
Shaded Ground
JENNY BRILLHART | SHADED GROUND
"My paintings, installations, and photos are informed by my surroundings both found and created. The structure and function of often overlooked material becomes my focus. Ideas arise through building and arranging objects and photographs routinely in the studio. By creating stilled moments through three-dimensional object placement, the commonly understood job of something may be altered. Use of time-lapse captures what I might not see and draws the day. Tools like rulers, cameras, brushes and prints often leave their mark. Physical space, light, time, and material are constant participants in the making, content and display. Process and flexibility allow for unexpected moments.
The paintings derived from built set-ups, further consider composition and cropping and their subjects’ relationship to paint. The paint is sculptural; it’s anatomy in plain view. This manipulation of mediums reveal an attempt to build form and light, and a narrative of studio practice in our contemporary world."
- Jenny Brillhart
Jenny Brillhart was born 1972 in Keene, New Hampshire. She received a BFA from Smith College in Northampton, MA and went on to study painting and drawing at The Art Students League, NY. In 2003 she graduated from the The New York Academy of Art with an MFA in painting.
Brillhart has had solo exhibitions at Kuckei + Kuckei Gallery, Berlin, Germany and Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, Florida as well as numerous other solo and group exhibitions. In 2017 she showed at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in a two person exhibition alongside artist Sara Stites. Brillhart was included in the 2019 deCordova New England Biennial. She lives and works in Blue Hill, Maine.
Jenny Brillhart
Blue Dock, Cleat, and Diagonal, 2020
Oil, pencil, pen on yupo paper
26" x 20"
$2,200
Jenny Brillhart
Red, White, and Bucket, 2018
Oil, pencil, pen on yupo paper
26" x 20"
$2,200
Jenny Brillhart
Walker Pond Blue Dock with Cleat and Rope, 2020
Oil and photo on aluminum
45" x 35"
$7,000
Jenny Brillhart
Walker Pond Quiet Water with Rope, Cleat and Ladder, 2020
Oil and photo on aluminum
23" x 17"
$3,400
Jenny Brillhart
Shade Shapes and Drywall House with Pink Rug and Painting, 2020
Oil on panel
25" x 18"
$3,700
